Summary:
Union General in Chief Henry Halleck writes General Darius Couch, commanding at Chambersburg, regarding the transfer of commands in August, 1863.

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Maj.-Gen. Couch and
Brig.-Gen. Kelley,
Chambersburg, Pa.:

War Department,
Washington,

August 3, 1863

The command of the troops belonging to your department, now in Maryland or on the Potomac, above the Monocacy, will be turned over to Brig.-Gen. Kelley, according to the new boundaries of the Department of West Virginia.

H. W. HALLECK,
Gen.-in-Chief.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 27, Serial No. 45, Pages 837-838, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.